‘Over 500,000 women die yearly to child delivery’

The Community Living Option (CLO) of Adeoyo Maternity Hospital Family Planning Clinic, Alhaja Bashirat Abiola Giwa, has revealed that over 500,000 women die every year as a result of child birth due to lack of family planning.

She made this known at a public health service delivery by the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Initiative (NURHI) to women to administer on them various contraception method of family planning. The event held at the popular Ayeye Market in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

She said the programme is for women, adding that NURHI has brought so many professionals together under its platform to achieve its objective, which is to reduce maternal mortality rate.

Giwa maintained that since NURHI came on board, it has afforded women access to good and free medical services.

In her remarks, the Program Officer of NURHI, Mrs. Jumoke Adekogba, said that NURHI is embarking on the program in order to enable women to have pregnancy by choice and not by chance.

She allayed the fear of women of any side effect of the family planning, saying that is why there are different types of contraceptive methods that women make use of.